The Taylor Swift Psy-op

The reason in yesterday's video I said "more celebrities!" is because I recorded the two at the same time and forgot which was coming out first lol.
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[@ShortFatOtaku]

this is like if leftoids made up grand conspiracies over kid rock and the mypillow guy endorsing trump

[@lithuaniaball]

​@@imperialbricks1977 the pillow man cometh, and the retirement home will never be the same

[@Questionable88]

@@imperialbricks1977no need for a conspiracy when interests align. Funny how that works.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

@@Questionable88 Yep. this explains the great replacement, and cultural marxism, and almost anything that appears outwardly 'conspiratorial'. There is almost never a shadowy cabal, just people acting in their own interests.

[@lithuaniaball]

@@ShortFatOtaku they LITERALLY meet in the open and discuss how they're going to use their immense wealth to subvert national sovereignty. You are the conspiracy theorist for pretending they *don't* exist at this point, is burying your head in the sand an Olympic pastime for you or something?

[@johnw9038]

​@@ShortFatOtakuWell I'm glad we at least agree those things are happening.

[@Runeinc]

I don't care who the government uses as a psy-op, I'm not going to listen to their shitty music.

[@johnsmith-ow3xs]

Thank you Dan.

[@DeadpoolX9]

Absolutely

[@Prodawg]

If making music was a game, (Yes I know Popscene exists and that Mdickie is the best game dev) Taylor Swift would be the impossible difficulty.

[@Keldren.]

it's not shitty, it's farty

[@iCantEvenButtonsGaming]

Yep. Saying media superstars like Swift or Lizzo AREN'T mass population influences on a political level would be intellectually dishonest. aka psy-op

[@DeadendSatellite]

Taylor Swift is a 5g tower built by Bill gates Personally in a lab in Ukraine to deliver Vaccines via her music that is being played through subconscious wifi waves.

[@danielutriabrooks477]

*Waifu waves

[@deadlyninja112]

☠️

[@AkiRa22084]

The joke fails to land when half of those turned out true.

[@strugglesnuggledslime7040]

Was that before or after he visited "the island"?

[@DeadendSatellite]

@@strugglesnuggledslime7040 Both and after that guy who was selling child porn pictures on his property.

[@H3LLM4R3]

The idea of Taylor Swift being a NATO asset and tweeting something along the lines of "Freedom isn't free, join the Army today!" during a Sino-American war is kinda funny.

[@SgtPotShot]

I still prefer the NCD Dogs.

[@HermitGeek]

Auntie Swift Needs You. Join up now...

[@Microphunktv-jb3kj]

what do you think tv, movies, celebrities was invented for? to control and mold the minds of masses... taylor swift is part of rothchild dynasty.. you actually think she has no political role whatsoever? people from these kind of clique are groomed for childhood for purpose

[@christopher9727]

No hope in war repent of murder today Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Seek his Holy Spirit for guidance peace and purpose today Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus

[@danielturczan2485]

Taylor wants you.... to buy war bonds.

[@Aging_Casually_Late_Gamer]

If you need a celebrity to tell you who to vote for, you shouldnt be voting.

[@cas343]

Go look how how the American founders ""campaigned"".

[@phantom8926]

​@@cas343do the quotation marks imply something about a certain group?

[@Thanatos2996]

@@cas343that’s an extremely broad topic, care to elaborate? What do you take issue with, the way electors functioned back in the day?

[@thomaspetrucka9173]

If a celebrity sways your vote, you shouldn’t be voting.

[@user-cs4su3ng9l]

What if its an influencer?

[@PulpHerb]

Want to know what Taylor Swift is so successful? Just look at Ice Spice. Taylor is one of the few pop artists parents can feel okay letting their tween kids watch. That alone is sufficient to explain her success. Never underestimate the power of "Grandma is okay buying you a poster/tee shirt for your birthday".

[@goosegirl941]

She’s successful because of her father and his massive wealth

[@black-aliss]

I think you hit the nail on the head. Her being able to string two intelligible words together also helps.

[@PulpHerb]

@@goosegirl941 that is necessary but not sufficient. It bought he into the game and into the premier League, but she's built on it. Otherwise other created stars would have achieved like this before.

[@akkunair9392]

the main reason people listen to ice spice is because she always shakes her ass dawg.... Taylor is popular because she makes generic family friendly pop music because as you mentioned she is one of the few artists parents feel okay letting their kids watch/listen to

[@DeadpoolX9]

Bruce Springsteen for teenage girls is the way I phrase it

[@MrHonkler]

I dont hate her for political reasons. I hate her for music reasons. Shes the perfect representation of the music industry funding garbage music for publicity. This gives her the ego of an artist who's made a deep contribution to music history, and she uses this clout and ego to make moves in the industry. Shes watered down and helped corporatize my art form, in the name of fame.

[@g00gleisgayerthanaids56]

Music isnt yours bub. Pop music existed long before swifts career ever began... she didnt pioneer watered down music that appeals to the masses. You hate her "success" for making generic, meaningless drivel.

[@MrHonkler]

@@g00gleisgayerthanaids56 Music is mine, just like its yours. And i never said she pioneered anything. Thats kinda my point.

[@Proud_Sex_Dungeon_Owner]

I thought ice spice was a diversity hire for the spice girls.

[@postnutauthoritarian]

You know there's a black girl in the Spice Girls, right?

[@lukezeiolf6977]

@@postnutauthoritarianno cause they’re British

[@MajorIronwood]

I thought she was the white house press secretary.

[@NoFlu]

"What is she? Like the eskimo spice girl" ~a close personal friend of mine

[@goosegirl941]

My husband legit thought she was a spice girl

[@Sketch_XR]

"Is Taylor Swift a psy-op?" "No, Patrick, Taylor Swift is not a psy-op." ..... *raises hand* "The moon landing is not a psy-op either."

[@DeadpoolX9]

I saw a meme from nearly a decade ago which said “if the moon landing was faked then why wouldn’t they fake even better achievements?”

[@nubbyboah]

@@DeadpoolX9 Good point, the moon is still hundreds of thousands of miles away from the Earth meaning getting even close is an impressive feat, but if it was all faked why not say you've been to Mars or somewhere further?

[@funkyweapon1981]

@@nubbyboahDon't forget the Ruskies would call us out on it if it were faked.

[@mrscruffles801]

@@nubbyboah Cause that wouldn't be as believable. When you lie to someone, you have to be careful about making your lie seem true.

[@Wannabechefguy]

And speaking of Taylor Swift and the NATO thing. I feel like we just kind of accepted that if a celebrity came out of nowhere and began to spout blind pro-government talking points (regardless of political aisle), they're just a shill or too stupid to engage in critical thinking and they should be ignored.

[@TheGreenKnight500]

Let's put it this way: we know that the pentagon funds certain Hollywood projects, especially when they depict the US military or intelligence agencies. However, a lot of celebrities are just not very intelligent. They're pampered, controlled imbeciles, especially the ones that were manufactured by the entertainment industry. They're idealized models of the sort of materialistic, mindless normies corporate America wants us to be. There doesn't need to be a higher conspiracy behind a human turned into a product.

[@BRAZILIAN_MIKU]

We as some portion of dev's fans? Yeah. but the we as society is definetly falling for this shit en masse (it's not even we, i'm not american)

[@danielutriabrooks477]

​@@BRAZILIAN_MIKUDev has fans?

[@Rodrigo-kq3js]

yes, he keeps them in his room to cool his fat​@@danielutriabrooks477

[@danielutriabrooks477]

​​@@Rodrigo-kq3jsHe's in Canada, he probably just grabs a block of ice from the street and sits on top of it

[@crispyandspicy6813]

I think most people are just shitposting about Swift but it is weird she's even more prevalent in the media. She was always popular but more of a "background popular". For some reason she's face and center now which is prolly what's freaking everyone.

[@zhuyu9268]

Yeah, I'm not sure what dev is thinking on this one. Maybe he's just out of touch now. She has been everywhere for a few months in a way she was not before and it's weird. I'm not claiming any reason why but I've noticed it, and it doesn't have any obvious explanation. I also found it odd that he is so dismissive of election fraud, I can only assume he doesn't see it as a foreigner, or maybe i just saw it more bc I live in one of the counties that had the most widespread fraud (all of which were highly populated counties in swing states).

[@hope-cat4894]

Ever since her concert movie came out, she's now everywhere. It's like people are just now realizing she could make them money. It's weird.

[@Tyler_W]

I agree that her new explosion is astroturfed. I just don't think it has anything to do with politics. Her relationship to Kelce, whether it's genuine or not (I have no reason to believe it isn't, to be fair), it's obviously a massive PR stunt. Publicity agents pair people off to raise their respective profiles for clout and money all the time. Considering we got the fairytale ending with the SB, it wouldn't surprise me. If there's a political psy-op involving Taylor Swift, it's convincing parts of "the right" into believing that Taylor Swift is a government psy-op so that they all look absolutely off their rockers and piss off all of the female voters they need to be courting.

[@Wordgoblin]

Who is worse: Celebrities who think their opinion should matter more than other people, or the people who believe them? There are plenty of both.

[@Theosis10]

IMO the people who believe them. If they didn't have those people, they would be as effective as those homeless guys on the street corner with a sign saying "the end is nigh". Herd mentality is strong enough that horrible ideas begin to gain legitimacy in the public perception purely due to "I've heard it enough times that it must be true."

[@PeruvianPotato]

Gonna go with the people considering they're the reason why said celebrities even have a platform at all

[@Tyler_W]

"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?"

[@lochmana1176]

She's not a psy op but she is being Astro Turfed. She was always a industry plant and after seeing her gain more popularity. I could definitely see her music being artificaly pushed I mean her take over was kinda out of nowhere.

[@douglasstrother6584]

"Taylor Swift is not a Psy Op." "Taylor Swift is not a Psy Op." "Taylor Swift is not a Psy Op." "Taylor Swift is not a Psy Op." ... MSM.

[@azurehorizon6097]

I remember seeing a couple articles during Covid where certain celebrities (I can't exactly remember who, but I swear Cardi B was one of them) where they were called so brave because they had to eat cereal and other "regular" meals because of lockdown, so eating some Cheerios instead of going to a 5-star restaurant is considered as a brave thing to do? And don't even get me started on the moral ivory towers a lot of celebs sit on in terms of caring about the climate, expecting us to change while they can continue to use their private jets that cause more damage, hoping that anyone who calls them out be silenced by their legions of brainwashed fans, Taylor Swift is certainly one of the more notorious examples of this

[@pepperonipizza8200]

I can second this. I remember seeing the article too.

[@TheHalogen131]

Remember the celebs singing Imagine? God, that was so cringe. Bunch of useless pricks

[@AspiringDevil]

Nah Carbi had a more amusing reaction that briefly become a meme. Your thinking of Madonna & such but the media mock them for being out of touch at the time. But there was no shortage of cringe articles saying exactly what you remember.

[@azurehorizon6097]

@@AspiringDevil I can't remember who it was exactly, I thought it was Cardi B, but it must've been someone else, because I do also remember seeing a video where the celeb in question started crying about it and how she wanted to go to a restaurant and not eat cereal, pretty pathetic regardless of who it was not gonna lie

[@AspiringDevil]

@@azurehorizon6097 that definitely rings a bell. Was it James Corbin maybe? I remember him being on of those celebrities complaining alot & getting mocked for it. If your curious Cardi I think had the most respectable & relatable reaction at the time. She laughed like super villain & cackled "carona virus this sh*ts getting real" way more relatable than Madonna crying in the bath tub while reciting bad poetry.

[@Emperor_Kronk_TheIV]

there is a great quote by Kurt Russle: "I've always been someone who felt we are court jesters. That's what we do. As dar as I'm concerened, you should step away from saying anything so that you can still be seen by the audience in any character"

[@yewtewbstew547]

That is a great point. I'd like to think I'm able to completely separate art from artist, but yeah sometimes an actor will make such a huge ass of themselves outside of their work that you can't help but think about it when seeing them on screen.

[@jasondean1634]

I've had almost as much fun from listening to commentaries between him and John Carpenter as I did from the actual films they made. They're entertainers and they know it.

[@Xplora213]

Without exception, the people saying this are conservatives, or democrats who actually know how business works. You cannot alienate 75% of your customer base.

[@creatrixZBD]

One of the most glorious films ever is here on YT, remastered on 4k and free to view. Of course, I speak of ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, with the legendary jester-Chameleon Kurt Russell in his iconic role, Snake Pliskin. Seriously, go enjoy.

[@vane909090]

That's what they are, though. Clowns and jesters, rich ones.

[@wightboy12345]

Where is the trucker video? It’s been a year and a half.

[@HereTakeAFlower]

Did you know? 99% of subscribers lose their patience just before the trucker video is released

[@ShortFatOtaku]

+1 Day

[@lithuaniaball]

He's literally never going to release it simply because he knows his take is shit

[@wightboy12345]

@@ShortFatOtaku Just say it’s not coming.

[@Mark3O9]

Two more weeks

[@Rct3master44]

I learn celebrity gossip against my will ---> I learn celebrity gossip against my will ---> I learn celebrity gossip against my will ---> I learn celebrity gossip against my will

[@Novahstar]

As a zoomer of ‘05, Ice Spice is an enigma to me. I often forget she even exists, and every time I’m reminded it feels like a shock to the system. Just seems insufferable

[@shanweeboy]

I just imagine her dumb lyrics in the voice of Patrick Star. "Bitches are thick, but I'm thicker, Spongebob."

[@metroidhunter965]

The thing about people worshipping companies, it’s more like people worshipping content creators. Do you really think that FNAF would have gotten half as big as it did if it was ignored by JackSepticEye, Markiplier and The Game Theorist? What about Minecraft?

[@inkySaccharine]

Minecraft? 100%. A fully open sandbox game with total creative liberty isn't something so easily ignored. It might have fallen into the same realm as games like Factorio where strictly autists play it, but it would have definitely been popular. FNAF? No. That game was trash when it came out, it's trash now. Jumpscares aren't cool unless you're watching someone react to them.

[@wolfetteplays8894]

FNAF wasn't just the jumpscares@@inkySaccharine

[@inkySaccharine]

@@wolfetteplays8894Oh right, I forgot about the weirdos who wanted to bang the animatronic duck and fox.

[@Touma134]

​@@inkySaccharineThe jumpscares were the punishment for dying and the way to stay alive required some skill especially as it got harder. Problem with jumpscares is they release tension but once you die there is no tension. After awhile the gameplay was what drew people into it and then the lore which is fun to see what people come up with. Yes it's true it wouldn't have been nearly as popular it's more due to the fact that so much about it made it tailor made to go viral. It being 2014 or so I doubt that was the intention just a happy accident. The setting and animatronics and the general low budget horror gave it enough of an atmosphere too and it was a 5 dollar games. I didn't even play anything outside of the demo but I see what it had going for it. Some things go viral for a reason and has qualities that are actually commendable. No way you can't say the animatronics weren't fantastically designed or that phone guy didn't have charm that was well voice acted.

[@inkySaccharine]

@@Touma134 I can and I will. Your description of the gameplay loop is making the game out to be an adrenaline farm which has only made me despise it more and explains why so many people who were young, middle class losers who wound up being communists played it so heavily.

[@elijahedwards5360]

Dev just now finding out about Icespice is hilarious 💀

[@postnutauthoritarian]

I like Ice Spice, not her music, her ass lol

[@AspiringDevil]

Honestly if rightiods hadn't kept crying about her just like Lizzo I would know nothing about them.

[@andret3739]

I just found out about her from this video

[@GeorgeCowsert]

The core issue with Taylor Swift is that her fanbase is excessively belligerent and numerous. If there are any apolitical Swifities, then they are easily swayed by her screeching. As an aside: Taylor Swift can't sing. That pointless "wardrobe malfunction" she had did more to reveal how much she relies on autotune than anything worth peeking at.

[@JodyBruchon]

Despite all this, remember that the vast majority of the time, conspiracy theorists end up just being ahead of the curve.

[@unimportantcommenter4356]

Remember how Deus Ex's setting was built up of all conspiracy theories of the time being true? Well, talk about the prophetic nature of the game.

[@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher]

The vast majority of the time? I suppose if we just define the really loopy conspiracies as psy ops it improves the batting average somewhat.

[@JodyBruchon]

@@EdgarFriendlysCivicsTeacher Even the extremely censored "pizzagate" thing was found to have some truth to it. Speculation based on available evidence will rarely be 100% correct but that doesn't mean that everything is false either. I'm skeptic and rational and it's amazing how many times I've been correct over the past decade

[@E_Platypus_Unum]

Taylor being a psy-op is the psy-op

[@thegrimharvest]

Ah! So the glowies have taken the old 4chan Milhouse bit. That's kind of funny, actually.

[@trouverunpseudomarrant9423]

To be fair many on the Right have called out the bullshit of saying that Taylor Swift is a PsyOp, like many of the Daily Wire or Lauren Southern

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Yea

[@wolfetteplays8894]

They're bribed to hide the psyop

[@Arcadenblog]

For my money, this isn’t so much a government psy-op, as much as it is what you mentioned at the start of the video: a simple case of Celebrity manufacturing.

[@chucklebouf5379]

Celebrity manufacturing... why? The government is interested in manufacturing a celebrity because... they like her? They get nothing out of it, just out of the goodness of their hearts the government takes interest in the career and promotion of a particular person to make them influential? Then just because it's all good and proper that person then endorses the government that's been promoting them? And that's all perfectly above board and definitely doesn't have a special name or anything, that's just normal government behavior that only accidentally promotes them, but they just cared deeply about the art or something.

[@john_michael97]

There are a few game developers who have attained “celebrity status”, Miyazaki, Miyamoto, Kojima, and more niche is Suda 51

[@cookiecreep9204]

If anything, the most likely thing is politicians influence celebrities, which don't tend to be brightest people, so they just believe, and in turn influence common folk. It doesn't have to be some op, its just that naive kids that most celebs are tend to also like to be very loud about their choices.

[@bro4539]

It doesn't HAVE to be but they have been manufacturing musical celebrities for the purpose of manipulating young people since the sixties so I'd probanly err on the side of it being an op Maybe op isn't a good word for it. Just propoganda. Lies and manipulation by governments don't need some outlandish name, it's perfectly normal shit in this hell world

[@chucklebouf5379]

If the politician says they will give a celebrity money or favors if that celebrity endorses them at a huge public event and they don't want people to know they did that, then that's a psyop. Your issue seems to be thinking that something like this needs to be some grandiose backroom deal and not some bullshit they do casually over lunch while handing out Laker's tickets or some crap.

[@Hazamandeous]

Left has been better at this than the right for ages.

[@acm3047]

that guy just wanted an excuse to beat his dog and that messed up

[@levelfive7662]

Okay okay, great points (even though i haven't watched the video yet)...HOWEVER...Having to listen to an [UNSPECIFIED RELATIVE] sing and listen to Taylor Swift EVERYDAY is enough to radicalize the sanest man, making every Taylor related conspiracy plausible.

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

The real psyop was the family we unfortunately have that listens to Taylor Swift

[@son0fvulkan184]

Especially when [UNSPECIFIC RELATIVES] won’t shut the hell up about every song, interview or bowel movement of this bitch. I don’t believe that the government had anything to do with it but I’m starting to reach that conclusion.

[@DeadpoolX9]

This is the true explanation. She’s psychological torture in the way only teenage women can drive even the most well adjusted person insane with their inane mundanity

[@DeadpoolX9]

@@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle Take them to the back of the barn Nah really for Lent I gave up the mainstream for the sake of my own sanity

[@snowcloudshinobi]

the meatcanyon video hits the nail on the head.

[@danielutriabrooks477]

8:09 Fake non-binary? As opposed to real non-binary?

[@chadmrrsn]

Corporate would like you to find the difference between these two pictures....

[@animal_4826]

I get that you're saying it's all fake, but in this case "fake non-binary" would refer to someone who doesn't even believe it themselves, in other words just a grifter. Real non-binary would be someone who actually believes they don't fit in to either male or female (the binary).

[@danielutriabrooks477]

1:26 *Todd Howard entered the chat*

[@ApplesGhost]

I liked this video because of bill and ted. Thank you, so-crates.

[@Ranatosk]

"All we are is dust in the wind dude." -Bill Esquire

[@redman9493]

@@Ranatosk Every rose has a thorn.

[@JJKane01]

So wait instead of the trucker video or a skullgirls court update, you talking about Taylor Swift? I guess the psy ops worked

[@Notsogoodguitarguy]

Yeah, most devs don't really make it as celebrities, at least not most that try. But, I mean, look at Hidetaka Miyazaki - he's an absolute rockstar and loved by the Souls community, and he isn't even trying to be. He's just made good games and been humble and people have loved him for it.

[@GijsTheDog]

"I never said all actors are cattle. What I said was all actors should be treated like cattle" -Alfred Hitchcock"

[@rachelc.8143]

“What the fuck is wrong with your generation?” As a zoomer: everything.

[@Touma134]

Several generations failed you and taught you nothing and prepared you for nothing.

[@Helminthis]

This whole video is dev trying to hide his TDS😂

[@ShortFatOtaku]

you're dumb

[@humanbeans4498]

​@ShortFatOtaku ooo that's rough buddy

[@spikeshartell4675]

I do find it odd that she just happens to be dating the quarterback of the team that won the biggest sporting event in an election year in a somewhat questionable hallmark movie fashion. For the most part i don't really care about her beyond what she can motivate the plebs to do,(and its not like someone else wouldn't be doing it). I'm more inclined yo say the media obsession with her is more of a psyop than what Loomer is claiming. I get the impression from chatting in various circles that most conservatives don't give a shit about her.

[@raw1175]

11:20 “pentagon psychological warfare unit in a NATO meeting” means a dozen officers in a room together shit posting.

[@dylanmay4993]

Her only sysop is the music industry trying to convince us that her music is good.

[@DeadpoolX9]

2016-2019 should be a focal point of historical/sociological analysis That shit was fucking confusing and overwhelming at the time

[@Wannabechefguy]

Funny that Dev talks about TDS in this video. It took me wayyyy back to 2017. The days of Kekistan and Milo and Sargon. Anwyays. This is kind of a deep cut but TDS is still alive in some areas of the internet. I occasionally find myself playing Pokemon on the internet client "Pokemon Showdown" and I only ever play the unranked battle ladder. But one day, way back in 2017, I ran in to some loser named "ResistTrump". And it was cringe then bc this was a platform meant to simulate Pokemon battles. Not an avenue for political opinions. But when I signed in the other day and loaded up a game, guess who I found? The same person playing on the ResistTrump account from 2017. Imagine going through seven years of mental development and you just won't move on from an almost decade old movement bc....Trump's le bad? Just a funny thing I realized.

[@lithuaniaball]

TDS is alive and well in the heart of everyone fanning the flames of war in Ukraine as a feeble attempt to get back at Russia for the 2016 election, even though it's been proven they didn't have anything to do with it

[@ClarenceJBoddicker1987]

The Reddit front page is basically half TDS.

[@Zetact_]

TDS also still exists, even amongst a lot of normies, but it's not so much the same sort of "screeching in rage at everything Trump does" but is easily in the form of never Trumpers. If you define TDS as an irrational lack of ability to view Trump in a positive light, even if he does something you otherwise would agree with (which I think is a fair description), then never Trumpers would certainly qualify as having it.

[@D00dman]

Maybe homie just clung to it cause he had fond memories of whooping ass under that name or had a dream team then.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

i have no problem admitting when trump does something good. But what trump did with the eastman memo is so insanely bad he shouldn't be president.

[@GreenVikeenArt]

Kristen Stewarts doing a crackhead inspired photoshoot to own the conservatives had me in stiches 🤣

[@QbutNotTheQ]

Taylor Swift is entirely baked into the cultural cake. She won’t change anyone’s political opinion.

[@equu497]

The goal is to get her to inspire the kids who couldn't vote in the last election. Trying to up the zoomer numbers for Biden

[@Auriorium]

Whenever any celebrity starts talking to me about some current year shit I tell them: "Shut up Monkey you are being payed to entertain me so Dance Monkey Dance!"

[@KnightofChaosDeck]

'Nobody worships game devs!' *looks at the Pokemon/Palworld conflict* Uh...

[@MetroidGX]

Nintendo fans are something else. Fist they claim that "piracy is morally correct" and say "fuck nintendo" then begin to bootlick them all becuase "le pokemon designs are so similar! ai is used, its so over for game devs! gamefreak do something!"

[@KnightofChaosDeck]

@MetroidGX You mean how Palworld defenders were all about ethics and standards until they saw a game with knock off Pokemon (at best) and then proceeded to lie about detractors and go 'theft good'? No one was good in that conflict.

[@AkiRa22084]

@@KnightofChaosDeck What theft? Wacky animals existed in fiction before Pokemon.

[@guywholikesheelies3231]

​@@AkiRa22084you gotta admit some of those designs were pushing it, if not just stealing designs of Pokemon.

[@AkiRa22084]

@@guywholikesheelies3231 Not any more than some Digimon. Parody is fair use. The one that looks a bit like Pikachu, looks WAY MORE like Totoro.

[@MadsterV]

"It's not a conspiracy, it's just a private agreement for legally dubious mutual benefit"

[@danielutriabrooks477]

I preffer the term "secret protocol", it's more classy

[@jiggycalzone8585]

Shadowy conspiracies aren't necessary when common interests converge. Which makes it so frustrating when something very easily explained by common interests converging gets dismissed as 'conspiracy'

[@filthy_peasant_the_one2134]

@@jiggycalzone8585 The meaning of the term conspiracy has now been lost by how much it’s been abused. A conspiracy is a secret (and usually illegal) agreement between some people to do something. By definition what the elites are doing, with converging interests, is a conspiracy. Are they keeping their plans to subvert politics a secret to the common folk? Well, yes. Are they doing it illegally? Probably very much so, but it’s called “lobbying” instead of “bribing” so now it’s not “illegal”.

[@draketheduelist]

​@@jiggycalzone8585 Ding ding ding. The left doesn't need a conspiracy because being a knee-jerk know-nothing blowhard with a messiah complex is really easy.

[@robertyounger5849]

Nothing can be “dismissed as a conspiracy” because the word conspiracy is not synonymous with “far-fetched conspiracy”

[@black-aliss]

I just want to know why she's in every second news item. They're trying really damn hard to sell her and they don't care if it alienates people who would potentially listen to her endorsement.

[@_Carlos]

I'm just here to point out that the same people who decried the "footballer kissing his cheerleader gf on the field after a game" photo as fascist are head over heels for the Taylor and her football bf stuff.

[@Hammerhead547]

I remember back in 2017 when metallica's kirk hammet wrote a pretentious missive about trump, when I read it my reaction genuinely was: "Kirk, just shut up and play your fucking guitar because I don't care about your bullshit politics"

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

God I hate Metallica. And I'm a big time metal fan, that's why I hate them. They're just so plain and boring, it's the worst version of heavy metal music, and they're the most famous of all, it's infuriating. And their support of socialism just makes it even worse.

[@Hammerhead547]

@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231 James Hetfeild is actually pretty conservative, he moved out of san francisco a few years ago because he hated dealing with the people and politics there. The problem is that kirk actually thought people cared about his personal politics and wrote that screed about trump without realizing that no one cared about what he had to say.

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@Hammerhead547 I dunno, from what I've heard of Hetfield, he seems pretty liberal. Not an insane commie like a lot of other musicians, but I wouldn't call him conservative.

[@AcidifiedMammoth]

​@@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231I do not know much about their politics, but their music is absolutely fire. KeA, RTL, MoP, AJFA, even the 90s album while they aren't metal, make for good rock albums, try Load again. They've had occasional good songs in their 21st century offerings, which is fine to me, not all of their music was going to be the same and as good as their early years, some change and other don't, they were just the changing kind. They are accessible and basic, but basic can be good. I think you should freshen your memory and go listen to some RTL. The shitty mix on all their albums probably doesn't help though.

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

@@AcidifiedMammoth nah man, it's basic bitch metal. It's the training wheels for getting into good music. They aren't that heavy, they aren't that fast, they don't have a great vocalist, they don't write great songs, there are so many groups that are just superior to them in all ways. Listen to some Lamb of God, Metallica can't even dream of being that good.

[@panameadeplm]

End Wokeness was referring to the fact that every establishment media pusher on Twitter started talking about Taylor Swift at the same time since January, and they still are. It started with every single post on my feed being about Taylor's Swift's new boyfriend and how this spells doom for Trump(???). It has been incessant and daily. Today, my feed is still 90% Taylor Swift, every post saying that this makes me afraid. It is a psyop, it is happening.

[@budwyzer77]

She was on TV networking with fellow billionaires in NFL stadium suites during the NFL playoffs.

[@Suiki1]

My only note for you is that Trump lost because the opposition cheated. It'd be nice if you mentioned that.

[@TheOutlawMan]

The hilarious irony of Dev talking about TDS.

[@JoshPhantom]

Dev, you are literally the small brain Socrates posited. You are discussing people in the physical world. Socrates was advocating for discussion of death and an absense of the physical world. He was just a depressed old man who got mad that he could never be as good as Alexander

[@Brenhydra]

"I do not care" He says, dedicating 17 minutes to how much he doesn't care.

[@amibrainwashed]

I don't care about your comment. So much so, in fact, I need to write a reply telling you how little I care about your comment. 😛

[@bklan9899]

When you are constantly being bombarded with information you don't care about, responding to that is not an indication that you care, but that you are annoyed by it and wish it to stop because it's exhausting. Don't be a fucking child

[@danielutriabrooks477]

​@@bklan9899If you don't care about something you can't be annoyed by it

[@amibrainwashed]

@@bklan9899 the guy writes a 15 word comment, which in all seriousness, shouldn't be taken seriously. Then you write a long run on sentence followed by an insult and F bomb. Remind me, who's the child again?

[@sophie9419]

Great use of your time Dev. If you're really so lazy you can't finish the trucker video, at least have the decency to go silent until you're finished. This is embarassing at this point. Also, I'm Gen Z. You're online enough to know how splintered the internet has become. Never even heard of that performer.

[@ShortFatOtaku]

No. I'll upload whatever I want. If you don't like it, go away.

[@sophie9419]

@@ShortFatOtaku Dude, I've literally been a follower for over half a decade. I used the word lazy, because that's how you've described yourself in livestreams. I'm not angry, I just know you can do better because I remember your old content.

[@dedisestablishmentarianism]

​@ShortFatOtaku can't come up with a centrist position on the topic. We will get the heat death of the universe before we get peak centrist position on the Freedom Convoy.

[@t700e]

"If you want something done, just do it yourself..."

[@PeruvianPotato]

​@@t700eNobody cares about my video takes so I'm just going to wait for someone else to do it to comment on it + I could do better things with that time

[@douglasstrother6584]

Anti-2A: I knew there was a deeper reason to despise Travis Kelce.

[@Tang-qi6zw]

There are some liked and even worshipped celebrity game developers. Gaben. Kojima. And that’s probably it. And some are liked enough like Yoko Taro and Scott Cawthorn without being full celebrities. Notch also has his own c-tier celebrity status.

[@danielutriabrooks477]

Dev is prone to extrapolate his very isolated lifestyle to the rest of the world. In the hypothetical scenario of him being into comics instead of into videogames, I don't doubt for a second that he would say that comics weren't mainstream until the MCU

[@Loathsome_Lynx]

Notch is more of a historical figure than a celebrity at this point

[@just_a_turtle_chad]

Getting called a conspiracy theorist is a badge of honor that should be worn proudly.

[@ChickenJoeSchmoe]

Achievement Unlocked: Make conspiracy theorists mad

[@senorpepper3405]

Gae bot

[@Treblaine]

Gamer gate being supposedly a massive secret plot by "gamers" to harass women just for being women and fabricate wrongdoing by journalists somehow doesn't count as a conspiracy theory... The Trump campaign colluding with Russia in 2016 is a textbook example of a conspiracy, with many outright saying it should be prosecuted as a conspiracy somehow isn't a "conspiracy theory"... There's supposedly conspiracies of right wing terrorist everywhere and they've been plotting continually for the past decade yet where are they? Nope, can't call that a "conspiracy theory".

[@TheButterAnvil]

"haha you called me a retard since im a retard, thats how i know im right"

[@joky171]

Just keep muchin those clown pills brother 🤘 just gata laugh

[@danagray9709]

I honestly haven't seen anything about Taylor Swift conspiracies except for the terminally online. Most of us are just wondering why anyone cares who she is dating or what political cause she endorses. If she's releasing new music, I'm interested. I like her music and have even when she first got started with country music. Literally anything else about her is none of my business.

[@nives3979]

Man, I did not need to be reminded of that Madonna dancing.

[@xero0015]

16:05 It's her worst song by far, She was famous because other songs were catchy and became dance trends online. She was also very widely hated when she first entered the scene leading to a contrarian fan base of people who just wanted to support her because they felt bad, now she's bigger than any of us ever expected

[@isaaclemmen6500]

As a Zoomer born in 2001, I can say with confidence that I have never heard of Ice Spice before this video.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

“Is that one of the Spice Girls?” - literally my prehistoric self when I heard him mention it

[@your_waifu_hates_you]

I've literally only heard of her from those ai president shorts

[@live4hockey2]

Honestly I just don't even understand celebrity worship (cult)ure. I don't care who Taylor Swift dates, I don't care what Beyonce had for lunch, I don't care about who gained 10lbs. The ancient Romans considered entertainers to be of a lower class and somewhere along the lines it all changed to where people will literally idolize them to the point of a hivemind (I blame The Beatles personally). We all have people we can admire and look up to, but this constant obsession with celebrities, whether out of love for them or hate for them) has gotten out of hand. Everything I know about Taylor Swift I know agains my will.

[@PeruvianPotato]

Funny because I'm supposed to be the ideal age where I should REALLY care about this stuff but I just don't.

[@Langharig_Tuig]

To be fair... not in my wildest dreams had I even remotely considered Taylor Swift to be a psy-op... untill the govt specificly mentioned it wasnt one haha

[@alecseesghosts]

I keep saying this, but taylor swifts power rivaling dethklok is very scary

[@gnarwhal7562]

Is it just me, or are y'all sick and tired of seeing Taylor Swift f*cking everywhere? News headlines, magazine covers, pop radio, Twitter/X, the Eras movie, football games, vinyl, TikTok clips, etc. It's pure oversaturation at this point. It also doesn't help that she has one of the most sycophantly obsessive fanbases in the world (who will send literal death threats to people for criticizing anything about her). I'm so done with it all. I would die a happy man if I never had to hear about her again

[@coco26006]

so dev an old zoomer here, and honestly I don't actually hear lot of "zoomer" music from people my generation, hell I remember when I was in college for mech that a dude that was fresh out of highschool was blasting Metallica out of his welding booth and not new stuff, like "kill 'Em All"... so I kind of think a lot of zoomers have rejected newer "pop" for older stuff

[@PeruvianPotato]

I mean not really but there's a decent amount of people my age that's been tuning into 1980s J-Pop recently so that's something to write home about

[@Sin-Faoladh]

The ice spice lady sounds like those old middle school sound cloud rappers

[@cl0k3]

Aren't devs like Sakurai, Harada, Mortdog or Toby Fox beloved by their communities though? Undertale fans are built diff sure, and as a gacha degen, we sorta deify devs like Lowlight, Da Wei and Kim Jihoon (technically) but that's because they become assosciated with the generosity of the game lmao. And mortdog,harada and sakurai all engage with the community in some limited way (though I'd argue sakurai's youtube channel is not the most notable form of communication) so it becomes parasocial in a sense?

[@miguellopez3392]

Toby fox started being hated when only 99% of his views aligned with his community, now they call him a lazy game developer despite praising him for being a 1 man team for undertale years ago.

[@lithuaniaball]

Cliff B was huge, humanity's nexus of developing conscious Carmack is still a big deal today, John Carpenter had a following via osmosis, and id tech splitting up was straight up celebrity drama at the time. I'm not sure what sfo is on about

[@cl0k3]

​@miguellopez3392 unfortunately I can only speak as a person who had an undertale phase and stopped enjoying it because I realized how actually meh it is (tho I recognize the amount of work fox put into it)

[@danielutriabrooks477]

​@@miguellopez3392To be fair, he has been teasing Deltarune's completion for almost half his followers' life

[@doggodesign4259]

@@miguellopez3392 when did this shit happen? God can't they just let the devs cook and not crunch their teams? People are so entitled to think that art can be rushed. BG3 was amazing with a smaller budget because of the fact they took so long with the game with an early access time period of three years and the studio was filled with people who were passionate. I am so tired of this shit, people need to think for the love of God.

[@michaelscott6390]

A day late and a dollar short but that's the Dev way

[@D00dman]

You’re just an “s” short of this being the perfect sentence, but it’s the thought that counts!

[@michaelscott6390]

@@D00dman Fixed!

[@murdockpt]

dev is officially no longer “with it”. He is now a boomer. The psyop thing was that for months and months prior, taylor swift was suddenly appearing everywhere. Never once engaged with her content, and yet it still got dumped on me. it became more and more apparent that it was being pushed on me. then everyone was suddenly talking about her ALOT, even though nothing had really changed. then came kelce, the super bowl, etc etc. it just felt like someone was inflating her.

[@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்]

Dev's knowledgeable when it comes to Marxism but otherwise most of his takes are painful normie takes. Using a popular celebrity to promote a political party is such an obvious stunt, the fact that dev doesn't consider this a possibility is mind boggling.

[@hope-cat4894]

There was a January NPR article on an interview Taylor did about her influence on young girls. MELISSA BLOCK: You know, I've been thinking about this a lot because I am the mother of a 12-year-old girl, and she loves your music. Her friends love your music. You have a huge platform among a very vulnerable, impressionable set of the population. And I wonder if you think about turning your lens outward - turning it away from the diary page and sending a broader message to girls who would be really receptive to hearing about big ideas and the big world that's outside. SWIFT: Like what kind of messages? BLOCK: Well, other characters. I mean, I don't mean to minimize the effect of a love song or a pop song, but do you ever think about writing in the voice of other characters, other experiences, things that might turn girls away from themselves in a different way? ... PARKER: Well, I mean, yes and no. Like, when you have millions and millions of followers, like it or not, you've got a platform. You've been chosen. And what you do with that platform is important. There are definitely people who want her to be more involved than she already is, but that's risky and could cost her fans.

[@Sines314]

I assumed the 'psy-op' had something to do about why I was CONSTANTLY hearing about her, and having no idea why. Kinda like when Democrats talk about something nobody cares about and claim the unhinged right is going crazy. But this? Laura Loomers post is overly long, but it basically amounts to "The establishment wants influential celebrity endorsements." Maybe they did strike a deal if she wasn't willing to do it on her own. Maybe she did it on her own. Whatever, it's not a big deal either way.

[@DM13man]

I don't think she's in cahoots for some political chess game, but I think people are trying to find out why Taylor Swift is being pushed so much this year. I think people intuit that there is something off but don't know why. I just think Taylor Swift is the most manufactured person in the limelight right now. that's probably what is setting people off. People can intuit if you are being disingenuous, and Taylor Swift is just that. She has a literal army of publicists, and PR reps and its just weird to make someone so bland into the "she's all that and a bag of chips" person.

[@Thomas-rv1wi]

>Be Dev >Don't believe in conspiracies >Be wrong

[@Rct3master44]

> believe in conspiracies > immediately be wrong

[@miguelbarrera2468]

@@Rct3master44like the Government spying on their own citizens or JFK getting offed by the deep state

[@Garethsmod]

​​@@Rct3master44 idk they've been pretty damn accurate these last few years, I still believe we went to the moon though.

[@dandy269]

I’m sorry, I still believe “You think you the shit, you ain’t even the fart” is fucking genius

[@3eve0n]

it's a funny line but that doesn't help the fact that it's sung with no melody and the backing music sounds like a robot with direherra

[@BasedHyperborean]

It truly isn’t. She’s an absolute smooth brain and shouldn’t be famous. She shouldn’t be allowed to disgrace the good name of music with whatever the fuck she thinks she is.

[@filthy_peasant_the_one2134]

It’s hilariously stupid, it got a chuckle out of me. But far from genius

[@BasedHyperborean]

It truly isn’t. It’s disgusting and embarrassing.

[@plexxarbiitch]

I feel bad for your friends when they get in the car w you

[@hesmycat]

I deeply distrust all celebrities. The problem is that there are normies who take them seriously, one way or the other, on anything that isn't their expertise. For Taylor Swift it is music. Sure, you can say she is an authority on music to some degree, but a lot of people do not make a distinction in their head. Why have we started calling them influencers? It's because there is an interest that the government establishments have in utilizing these influencers to shape public opinion. Taylor Swift is probably believes what she says, she just shouldn't be taken any more seriously than any other random 30 year old, less seriously in my opinion, since her job isn't a real thing the world requires. The real plants are probably on tik tok though ,really doubt they would pay Taylor Swift for free advertisement,.

[@filthyfrankblack4067]

This so A.I. generated.

[@AncestorEmpire1]

Then why make a video with her in the thumbnail? 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Indianmf]

Clicks stupid

[@Garethsmod]

Views

[@sumirunihon]

As a gen z dude born in 2004 i'm just as perplexed by you that anyone listens to ice spice. But it seems mostly catered to bratty teen girls to make them feel "sexy" or something. idk i've just always avoided girls like that at my school...

[@krispykornflakes7341]

It's official dev has been bought out by the swifties he is now part of the psyop

[@tjrock3]

The only problem I have with Taylor Swift is her weird culty superfans who froth at the mouth when you say anything bad about her.

[@keithfilibeck2390]

I'm gonna be completely real with, I'm gonna be a buck fifty with you, I hate Trump, but I hate the people that hate Trump more, and I'll vote for him, solely to make them mad, well that and the prices of my groceries, which he probably wont' help with, but its at least a shot in the dark, that is where we are, I will literally vote someone into office, because other people don't like him, and I'm not alone.

[@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle]

At this point, I'm just about ready to let the system burn. Trump isn't gonna fix the system, but he might shake it up enough that other people have the real chance to change things for the better instead of corrupt politicians from different parties working together to rig democracy

[@dfmrcv862]

I was super confused because I was only hearing about this conspiracy coming from the media. No one I know or follow was saying it. I saw end wokeness mention it, and I heard the Fox News segment, but only those two do it with any seriousness (no, I don't follow them). Ben Shapiro briefly mentioned it as a joke, later. Maybe it's because I don't follow as many right-wing personalities online, but within my own right wing circles, no one I knew was talking about it. Like most people on the right, at least those I knew, were aware of how unhinged it was and ignored it.

[@ScientismHeretic]

The resurgence in Taylor swift popularity is definitely astroturfed. The entire music and entertainment industry in general is smokes and mirrors. Something does not get big organically and this is especially true for Taylor Swift.

[@themisfitbrigade]

Yeah here’s the thing, next to nobody is actually angry or scared of her.

[@wavethewhite]

Everything is a psyop Dev! It's a psyop itself that you refuse to believe them!

[@SpankinYaBoy]

Taylor Swift would be the holy grail of psy-ops tbh... "Taylor Swift said _____ about a subject I know very little of. I love Taylor Swift! She is incredibly successful and seems to be a good person. If she is feeling strongly enough about said subject, I should support her..." --- Millions of impressionable people.

[@nubidubi23]

2:38 sow crates 💀

[@danielutriabrooks477]

Crates of Soy

[@MillywiggZ]

Reap cows

[@thevioletghost8377]

Moments like this are why I am a Centrist. Cause holy S*** I expected something this genuinely moronic from the Woke.... Then again Horseshoe theory.

[@panchopistolas9542]

I never thought the sudden popularity of taylor swift was a political move, but i did notice that she became too popular all of the sudden for someone so vanilla, maybe that's why marketing is pushing her, she is so vanilla is easier to sell, i just think they hyping her too hard to sell stuff, like other celebrities not for political reasons.

[@CatchYourWave]

Been closely following Taylor's media coverage since 2013. Something strange happened in 2014 during the initial release of "Shake It Off"... fans hated it at first, but the media told everybody otherwise and it became this iconic pop hit. Edit: I can also remember a Yahoo News article in early 2014 (before Shake It Off) where a journalist publicly apologized Taylor for writing a false report. It's very uncommon for American journalists to do that.

[@MA-naconitor]

A thought about the Peter Fonda tweets: It's interesting to look back at GTA SA, where both Fonda, but also James Woods were voice actors: Fonda morbidly tweeting about Trump and his family, and Woods constantly retweeting Trump's tweets

[@unimportantcommenter4356]

Wasn't Fonda the voice actor of The Truth? Cause if he was, then this is extremely ironic considering that the voice actor of an anti-estabilishment hippie is seething about the words of the president, while the voice actor of a literal governamental agent is retweeting the exact words of said president. The sweet taste of irony for sure.

[@TrickyMario7654]

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. That’s quite funny.

[@MA-naconitor]

@@unimportantcommenter4356 He absolutely was

[@unimportantcommenter4356]

@@MA-naconitor So my memory is not as rusty as I thought. Also, past Rockstar nailed the casting of SA.

[@MA-naconitor]

@@unimportantcommenter4356 They nailed the casting all through the 3D games IMO, but more so in SA. But it's almost 20 years since release, time's flying

[@Mr_Case_Time]

The “stock up on abortions” tweet is actually funny, but I think the guy was trying to make a serious point, so now it’s lame.

[@Erraddo]

You hate Swift because you think she's a psy op. I say I hate Taylor Swift because I find the debate funny. We are functionally indistinguishable but I feel superior.

[@Tb0n3]

Hideo kojima is absolutely worshiped.

[@greekcomenterperson446]

The guy who murdered his ex prime minister?

[@bcause-ql6so]

A lot of shit is wrong with our generation, I barely have any friends in my age, most of them are much much older than me.

[@energyfitness5116]

The glamour is fading because physical reality is slapping people.

[@enterthenameyo]

The current Taylor Swift phenomenon is simple - she's an attention hungry businesswoman and legacy media are desperate for clicks. It's a perfect alignment of interests

[@sniperrecon676]

Who's Taylor Swift?

[@5h4ndt]

someone who's very fast at making clothing

[@redclover5460]

@@5h4ndt I need her to teach me her arts. It took me over a month to make a set of pajamas.